Willow - thoughts please

[Eleta]

Although I like more unusual names, having one myself I have gone for more classic names for my daughters and this time have short listed Alice or Lucy (I like many others but DH not very imaginative!. But we both quite like Willow, I think it's pretty but the couple of people I mentioned it to thought it was too 'new agey'. I would like some honest opinions so don't worry about hurting my feelings, I can take it

Lovely but then I was a major Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan . Seriously - think it is good - different but not too much so IYKWIM...

I like it. Its my friends DD's middle name and he is a huge Buffy fan.

It's all about Buffy for me.
Ooh, or that film with Warwick wotsit in it, I loved that film when I was younger.

Very new agey!

A bit chicklit heroiney too ... sorry but you did ask! Alice and Lucy lovely ...

I think your instinct is good. If your daughters have classic names then Alice (my favourite - it was my grandmother's name but my husband vetoed it for our daughter) or Lucy would be good choices. Can't explain why, but although I like flower names - Violet, Primrose, Fleur and many others - I don't like Willow. I think it probably does have too many hippy, new agey connotations. And wasn't it also a film in the Hobbit/LOTR vein?

But, as always, pick names that you like and don't be deterred by what those of us avoiding the Hoovering by posting on MN think.

I had a gorgeous cat called Willow. I think it's a lovely name, very pretty, but I'd be wary of it in case your daughter ends up not suiting it. I picture a woman called Willow to be tall and slim and gorgeous. When we thought we might be having a girl, DH liked the name Grace, but it was unlikely that a child of mine was going to be graceful!!

i is quite a nice name; I think I like it It is the name of Richard Hammond's youngest daughter.

I love Willow - so m uch nicer than Alice or Lucy - well she did ask!

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I had a hamster called willow......

Definitely Buffy. But then she's pretty cool there so that's OK.

I think Willow is an absolutely gorgeous name.

I used to think Willow a pretty name but I now know a woman from east London with a nasal voice who has named her dd Willow; it's like nails down a blackboard every time I hear her use it...

So if your not an adenoidal east Londoner, use it although Alice & Lucy are more classically appealing imo.

It's lovely

No one ever wants Elm or Horse Chestnut. It's other-treeist.

I love it - my dd's middle name is Willow

I've always loved it since I was little and used to sometimes play with Willow Daltrey

really beautiful name

Love it was going to be DS2 name if her was a girl, which, obviously he wasn't.

Willow Elizabeth to be exact.

lol hully, i think its lovely

I thought Willow the wisp - the 5 min cartoon at the end of childrens tv in the 80's.

The voice was - ahh cant think of his name, dead and very camp and nasely voice.

Kenneth Williams

Thats the man - thanks.

New agey my arse.

It's just a lovely pretty name.